2. Young People in Britain: The Attitudes and Experiences
of 12 to 19 Year Olds.

DfES Research Report RR564, National Centre for Social Research
2004ISBN 1 84478 291

3. Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular
religion?

IF YES: Which?

None

65 per cent

Christian

27 per cent

Muslim

5 per cent

Hindu

1 per cent

Jewish

1 per cent

Sikh

1 per cent

Survey of 13,000 young people by Revd Professor Leslie Francis
and Revd Dr William Kay, Trinity College Carmarthen (Teenage
Religion and Values, Gracewing, 1995). 61 per cent of 14-16
year olds described themselves as atheist or agnostic.

Below is a list of phrases which might be used to describe
or define Britain and what it is to be British. For each one,
please indicate how important you think that word or phrase is
in defining Britishness.

The Church of England

Very important

17 per cent

Fairly important

28 per cent

Not very important

29 per cent

Not at all important

23 per cent

Don't know

3 per cent

9. ICM poll for The Guardian 23 August 2005

Q9. The government is expanding the number of state
funded faith schools, including Muslim schools. Which one of the
following do you most agree with?

25 per cent Faith schools are an important part of our
education system and if there are Anglican and Jewish state-funded
schools there should also be Muslim ones.

8 per cent Faith schools are an important part of our
education system but the government should not be funding Muslim
schools.

64 per cent Schools should be for everyone regardless
of religion and the government should not be funding faith schools
of any kind.

4 per cent Don't know

10. Home Office Research Study 274: Religion in England
and Wales: findings from the 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey
(March 2004)

Table 3.1: Which of the following things would say something
important about you, if you were describing yourself?

Your religion

9th of 10 factors at 20 per cent

Table 3.2: Top 10 things that would say something important
about the respondentby ethnicity